If All You See…

By William Teach January 23, 2017 – 1:00 pm

….is an area flooded from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Strata-Sphere, with a post on Trump’s first executive order.

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Bummer: ‘Climate Change’ To Lead To More Pleasant UK Weather

By William Teach January 23, 2017 – 10:30 am

Which means doom, in case you didn’t know

(Daily Mail) Britain is in a climate change ‘sweet spot’ which could give us an extra fortnight of fine weather every year, researchers say

Britain is in a climate change ‘sweet spot’ which could mean an extra two weeks of fine weather every year, according to new research.

Days that are perfect for outdoor weddings, picnics or barbecues will increase due to an ‘overlooked benefit’ of global warming, say scientists.

The first analysis of its kind maps the winners and losers where climate change will affect the frequency of mild weather – when cricket, fishing, boating and hiking can also be best enjoyed.

You know, like happened during the Medieval Warm Period, and surely the previous Holocene warm periods. Or whatever they did for fun on warm days.

Britain and Northern Europe will gain as much as 10 to 15 days extra mild weather annually by the end of the 21st Century.

People living in the mid latitudes, which include much of the United States, as well as many mountainous areas around the world, will get more mild weather.

I’m not seeing the downside. People can get outside more, exercise (while looking at their smartphones), enjoy nature (while looking at their smartphones), just get fresh air (while looking at their smartphone).

Of course, the Warmists at Mother Jones can only see Dooooooom, which includes a sad looking dog sitting in a car while it rains

Picture the perfect picnic day: It’s neither too hot nor too cold, neither too humid nor too dry. The sun is shining, and there’s little chance of rain. For many of our outdoor activities, these are the days we care about and plan for. And yet, in the last few decades of climate research, scientists haven’t spent much time researching these “mild weather” days. (snip)

Ticking off a couple of days here and there doesn’t sound too bad when you’re planning for picnics or hikes. But, as Kapnick points out, mild weather days also affect critical economic activities, including construction, infrastructure projects, agriculture, and air and rail travel. Such shrinking and shifting of mild weather could lead to significant negative economic consequences, not to mention a threat to our global food supply. Even for the handful of regions around the world where mild weather is predicted to increase, there could be unexpected consequences. “People in sunny California know that just because you have sunny, lovely weather, mild weather, doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily a good thing for your water resources,” says Kapnick.

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Suddenly, The Permanent Campaign Is Problematic Because Trump

By William Teach January 23, 2017 – 7:14 am

Politicians are in permanent campaign, and have been for quite some time. Certainly, Mr. Obama did this, even after his 2nd presidential election, and he wasn’t just campaigning for other Democrats (most of them who really didn’t want him around), but as if he was going to run for a 3rd term. Now, though, many in the Media Industrial Complex are complaining. I’ve caught a few tweets from them, and now this from Excitable Doyle McManus at the LA Times

Trump’s permanent campaign won’t help him keep his promises

In 1976, 10 presidential terms ago, an advisor to then-President-elect Jimmy Carter told him he should keep campaigning forever, even after his inauguration.

“Governing with public approval requires a continuing political campaign,” Patrick Caddell told Carter. The doctrine became known as “the permanent campaign,” and every president since has followed it.

President Trump has now extended the principle even further than his predecessors: He seems to think “permanent” means “constant.”

Hmm, so we’re going to change the language to complain? Cute. But, why is it “constant”?

Most new presidents use their inauguration to move forward, appeal to opponents for a joint effort at unity, and set some clear goals for the next four years.

Not Trump. He’s still stumping. After stretching his campaign past Election Day with a series of raucous victory rallies, he gave an inaugural address on Friday that replicated, in only slightly more elevated language, the pitch that helped him win the presidency.

In other words, Trump said in his inaugural address that he intended to do the exact things he said he would do during the campaign. As John Hinderaker wrote, if you thought he was kidding, think again.

Of course, what McManus means is that Trump, like other GOP presidents, is supposed to abandon his campaign promises and work to enact the Democratic Party agenda.

His speech reprised all the themes that built a successful insurgency among mostly white, mostly middle class voters. He didn’t say or do much, if anything, to try to expand his coalition. There was no explicit outreach to the majority of voters who didn’t choose him in November. Most important, he didn’t signal how he plans to get anything done.

Pro-tip: you lost. You know who has to change? You! The winners don’t have to change their promises and beliefs for the losers. We had this notion rammed down our throats during the Obama years. So, deal with it.

As far as outreach goes, Trump said “We are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people,” and that January 20, 2017 “will be remembered as the day that the people became the rulers of his nation again.” Obviously, Progressives are unhappy about returning power to the people.

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Liberals Continue Their Spree Of Vandalism In Boone, NC

By William Teach January 23, 2017 – 6:51 am

The Smartest People In The Room just can’t move on to bargaining, much less acceptance. Anger will be the norm for at least the next four years

(Watauga Democrat)  Graffiti — including profane statements about President Donald Trump and the words “Black Lives Matter” — was tagged on multiple buildings and a police vehicle in downtown Boone sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning.

“As chief of police, I assure the citizens of Boone that this case will be a priority for us,” said Boone Police Chief Dana Crawford in a statement. “It is deeply disturbing that some people believe that they have the right to damage other people’s property and businesses to express their views in an unlawful way. While people have the right to disagree with any elected official, damaging innocent people’s property is not consistent with Boone values.”

Earth Fare, the Dan’l Boone Inn along with Appalachian State’s Anne Belk Hall, Peacock Hall and Legends were hit by the graffiti, with all statements being clearly visible. ASU removed all graffiti on their buildings as did Dan’l Boone Inn, while Earth Fare had the vandalism painted over by Saturday afternoon.

Welcome to the long era of liberal tantrums. And guess who gets to pay for the cleaning? The taxpayers and private businesses.

Who could have done this? Perhaps not who you think.

Well, not sure it was a hate crime to start with, but, those too surely white liberals, who bought the paint and then took off in a Prius, are being sought by the police. You can see more pictures of them and the damage here. Some of the graffiti is supposedly so bad that no one wants to publish it.

Nor is this the first time Boone was hit with anti-Trump graffiti. Some surely white liberals did the same on 12.27. Conservatives didn’t do this. We don’t have the time nor inclination. Besides: we won.

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 22, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful green space that should be paved over for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is White House Dossier, with a post on Schumer demanding “mainstream” SCOTUS nominess.

It’s Redhead Week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach January 22, 2017 – 9:26 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in America, where hope has returned as Trump says he’s returning power to the people. We’ll see if that happens. This pinup is by Arthur Saron Sarnoff, with a wee bit of help.

What’s happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Starting off, let’s go to Adrienne’s Corner, which discusses pink pussy hats for equality
  2. Blazing Cat Fur notes what’s worse than rape in Hollywood
  3. Bunkerville covers what Obama did on ammunition on his last day
  4. Chicks On The Right explains the Women’s March based on their signs
  5. Creeping Sharia is covering yet another fake Islamophobia hate crime
  6. DaTechGuy explains “adulting”
  7. Evil Blogger Lady says to stay angry, pink pussy wearing ladies
  8. Fire Andrea Mitchell discusses the pictures of crowd size
  9. Flopping Aces notes that Trump wasn’t the one who divided the country
  10. Jammie Wearing Fools provides some inauguration comedy gold
  11. Legal Insurrection notes that the progressive “Tea Party” dream is already dead
  12. Moonbattery notes what’s back in the White House, missing since 2009
  13. MOTUS AD (formerly Michelle Obama’s Mirror) says that wolves don’t care about the opinions of sheep
  14. The First Street Journal notes that the NY Times still doesn’t get it after 73 days
  15. And last, but not least, The Daley Gator says Ashley Judd is still crazier than a pet coon
  16. And one to grow on: Political Clown Parade compares Trump’s inauguration crowd to Hillary’s (made me laugh)

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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After Women’s March, Cuomo Pushes Free Abortions And Contraception For These Super Empowered Women

By William Teach January 22, 2017 – 8:12 am

As you surely know by now, dozens of hardcore leftist organizations participated in a march on Washington to push for all sorts of leftist ideas, like abortion, ‘climate change’, vaginas, pussy’s, flipping people off while grabbing their vaginas, wearing pussy hats telling us they’re empowered (hey, that’s what most of the photos I saw seemed to be pushing). The NY Times has a wonderful collage of photos which conveniently forget most of the the Crazy. Like

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/822801551416815616

They were showing up all over. Along with lots of Moonbattery. And astroturfed signs. But, one of the themes seemed to be how empowered and powerful women are. That they can do anything men can do (produce sperm? How about a proper “hey, y’all, watch this”?). Here’s one of my favorites

I did have a question for Bernie Sanders

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/822821690044481542

We should ask the same of Andrew Cuomo

(Fox News) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday that he was requiring health insurance companies to cover medically necessary abortions and most forms of contraception at no cost to women.

Cuomo’s announcement comes on the same day that over a million people around the world took to the streets to protest Donald Trump just hours into his presidency.

Cuomo took to Twitter to talk about his effort to “firmly secure access to reproductive health services in New York State.”

The state department of financial services is mandating that health insurers in New York provide for at least one form of FDA-approved contraception exceeding a month’s supply at a time. Women would also be provided medically necessary abortions without co-pays or deductibles.

How wonderful. If women are so strong and powerful and empowered and can do anything boys can do, why is it necessary to patronize them with free stuff? It’s almost like Cuomo thinks that women are not capable enough to be able to earn $9 a month for birth control.

That said, did you notice one interesting thing? “Medically necessary” abortions. In fact, only a tiny number, some say less than 1%, of abortions are medically necessary. Certainly, Cuomo knows this, and is simply patronizing abortion supporting women with this claptrap.

BTW, will the media give even a 10th of the coverage to next weeks March For Life as they did this march?

Crossed at Right Wing News.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 21, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is weather that is totally extreme, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on another reason Trump was elected.

BTW, that’s Yanet Garcia, who many consider to be the hottest weather lady ever.

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Good News: Sea Levels Could Rise Higher Than A Three Story Building

By William Teach January 21, 2017 – 10:57 am

If you’re talking about a three story dollhouse, ….well, actually, no, not even that high. This one really highlights just how insane the so-called science of ‘climate change’ is

Sea levels ‘could rise higher than a three-storey building due to climate change’

The last time ocean temperatures were this warm, sea levels were up to nine metres higher than they are today, according to the findings of a new study, which were described as “extremely worrying” by one expert.

The researchers took samples of sediment from 83 different sites around the world, and these “natural thermometers” enabled them to work out what the sea surface temperature had been more than 125,000 years ago. This revealed that over the course of some 4,000 years the oceans had got about 0.5C warmer, reaching about the same temperatures as are found now – after a similar increase achieved largely as a result of human-induced climate change in little over a century.

Previous research has established that sea levels at the time were between six and nine metres higher. This gives an indication of what sea levels might be like once the vast oceans expand and ice sheets melt over the course of the next centuries and millennia.

So, it might possibly maybe we think might happen because of samples, even though the actual real world data of today shows no acceleration of sea rise. BTW, what caused that sea rise in the past, and why would today be different?

For the computer models used by scientists to predict what the climate will be like in the future had failed to pick up on the rise in temperatures 125,000 years ago. This suggests the models could be missing a key warming effect that might be about to kick in, sending temperatures higher than currently expected.

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It’s Trump Vs The Planet On ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 21, 2017 – 7:39 am

Members of the Cult of Climastrology seem a bit upset that Trump is going to actually do what he said during the campaign season and since winning the election, namely, doing away with government sponsored climate change insanity

Trump vs. The Planet: Climate in Crosshairs of Executive Pen

Given what is known about his cabinet picks and plans for fossil fuel extraction and executive actions, the former reality TV star who became the 45th President of the United States on Friday appears poised to kick off a “deregulatory agenda” and take actions to fast-track climate catastrophe.

Michael Halpern, deputy director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, predicts the new administration to continue its shock therapy strategy:

A major strategy has been—and will likely continue to be—to institute radical proposals by overwhelming the public with an avalanche of activity and by attempting to distract us with the president’s cult of personality.

And given the corporate cabinet, a climate-denying transition team, and a dearth of debate on appointees, Halpern expects “significant industry influence over the role of science in government decisions.”

So, instead of the influence of shady interest groups, attempting to impose their views on all citizens by government regulation while fundraising and refusing to implement their beliefs in their own lives, you could get people who are not full of BS.

Trump himself laid out after Election Day what he’d do on his first day in office, including allowing the Keystone XL pipeline to move forward; lifting restrictions on fossil fuel production; and canceling “billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs.”

Excellent!

As Michael Slezak wrote Friday at the Guardian, “regardless of what climate deniers (yes, deniers) like Trump may say about the science, the stark reality is that it is happening now.”

“We are no longer fighting to stop climate change, but fighting to stop a runaway catastrophe,” he added.

And that’s exactly why belief in anthropogenic climate change has plummeted, and is generally a low ranked issue by most Americans: this apocalyptic viewpoint from people who seem less like scientists and more like the person standing on the corner with sign saying “The end is nigh!”

And, to reiterate, the debate from Skeptics is not on warming, but causation. It’s going to be a long, unhinged four years for Warmists. Here’s a clue for them: you lost.

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